Lessons on Resilience from the Oaks
Looking back at the “fire season” which only now seems to have “ended,” I’m remembering a trip I took out to Las Virgines deep in the San Fernando Valley near Calabasas late last year, while the Woolsey Fire was still raging in all directions. Looking around, the oaks were the obvious subject of the story of burned hillsides.
As I wrote a journalist friend at the time, on many hillsides: “the oaks sit alone in a newly desolate landscape. Their survival seems unlikely, but what few humans — even local ones — seem to know is that if healthy, the California live oak is resilient to fire….
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